MU130 - Quiz 2

 Spectrogram - visual representation of sonic frequency

Fourier Transform - Mathematical method of extracting component frequencies from an original mic

Fundamental - base frequency of a tone

Harmonics - individual sine tones making up a sound

Formant - loudest harmonics that determine the character of a sound

Throat singing - a style of singing that produces more than one pitch

Khomus - Jaw harp from Sakha (northern Siberia)

Hermann von Helmholtz - German physicist who made crucial contributions to the field of acoustics

Rudolph Koenig - German physicist who built acoustic devices

Vocoder - The first electronic human voice emulator, developed by Homer Dudley in 1920

Basilar Membrane - An inner ear membrane that enables the perception of specific frequencies